Handel's Oratorio
"Messiah"
PART THE SECOND

"He was despised and rejected
of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief" (Isaiah
53:3). "He gave his back to the smiters, and his cheeks
to them that plucked off the hair; he hid not his face from shame
and spitting" (Isaiah 50:6).

"Lift up your heads, O ye gates,
and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of Glory
shall come in. Who is the King of Glory? The Lord strong and
mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O ye gates,
and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of Glory
shall come in. Who is the King of Glory? The Lord of Hosts, He
is the King of Glory" (Psalm 24:7-10).

"Why do the nations so furiously
rage together, and why do the people imagine a vain thing? The
kings of the earth rise up, and the rulers take counsel together
against the Lord, and against His anointed" (Psalms 2:1-2).

"HALLELUYAH: for the Lord God Omnipotent
reigneth (Rev. 19:6). The Kingdoms of this world are become the
kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ; and he shall reign for
ever and ever (Rev. 11:1). King of kings, and Lord of lords.
HALLELUYAH!" (Rev. 19:16).